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Explain, ‘Just a Palsied Few at the Windows Set;’ - English 2 (Literature in English)

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Explain, ‘Just a palsied few at the windows set;’

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Instead of the cheering crowds who had welcomed him a year ago now there are only a few diseased and old people gathered to see him being hanged. This is the humiliation which he is faced with as no longer is he a celebrity who people will throng to see.

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